Yogyakarta -- Scores of demonstrators from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held an action in front of the Gajah Mada University traffic circle on Friday January 28 demanding that the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono resign because they have become loyal servants of capitalism in Indonesia.

Action coordinator Arif Hasibuan charged that right from the start the government has created problems and experienced economic and political disorientation. Moreover it has increasingly asserted its support for imperialism.

Yogyakarta -- The special autonomy that has been in effect in Papua since 2001 is not working in accordance the hopes of the indigenous people there. There are still many infringements and even human rights violations. As a consequence, there has been no development and indigenous people have never enjoyed the produce of the land of their birth.

This view was expressed when Papuan demonstrators took to the streets of the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on Thursday January 27. The protesters from the Anti-Colonial Movement (Ganja) marched through Jl. Malioboro in the city center then ended the action at the central post office intersection.

26 January 2011

Jakarta -- The US Central Intelligence Agency very much dominated the initialconsolidation of the New Order regime of former President Suharto. USinternational relations historian from Princeton University, Bradley R Simpson,says that the succession of laws enacted by President Suharto was drafted withstrong influence from the US.

"As an example is the case of Law Number 1/1967 on Foreign Capital Investment. Asuccession of laws and the presence of Freeport in Papua were the initial stepsin US government intervention at the time in the Suharto regime", said Simpson,who has recently launched a book published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama titled"Economists with Guns: The United States, the CIA and the Emergence of theAuthoritarian New Order Regime".

The White House and the CIA played an extremely important role in efforts toreschedule Indonesia's debt after the Indonesian economy during earlier periodof former President Sukarno suffered hyperinflation and problems obtainingforeign exchange.

In the initial period of the Suharto administration US intelligence greatlyassisted the military dominated regime. Although there were also concerns a toolarge military organisation in Indonesia could be counterproductive to USinterests. It was because of this that it was only in the 1970s that the US wasprepared to provide primary defense equipment weaponry.

The high level of human rights violations have been aggravated by unclearregulations and a failure to provide a sense of justice to the public.

"There is still a great deal of violence and threats against civil liberties",said Kontras Papua coordinator Olga Hamadi during a press conference at theKontras' offices on Jl. Borobudur in Jakarta on Friday January 21.

Esther Samboh, Jakarta -- The government will soon abolish import dutiesfor 30 staple commodities starting from the end of this month amid risingconcerns over a possible food supply shortage at home and surging foodprices in the world market.

Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said Wednesday that the commoditiesincluded wheat, animal feed, fertilizer, soybean as well as many others.

"There will be a time frame for the scrapping of the import duties, soonce global food prices have stabilized, there will be an evaluation as towhen it would be revoked," Mari told reporters after a meeting at theOffice of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy in Jakarta.

10 January 2011

Alex de Jong

The 1960s were worldwide a period of turbulence and change. But whereas in many parts of the world, the decade is often remembered as a time of exuberance and hope, in Indonesia it’s split in half by a wave of intense violence. About 45 years ago, one of the great crimes of the twentieth century took place: from early October 1965 to March 1966, after a coup attempt by pro-Communist Party officers backfired, Indonesia witnessed the bloodiest massacres in its history.

The predominant form of the killings was an anti-Communist pogrom, targeting not only the leaders of the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Kommunis Indonesia, PKI) and its allied organizations but also their rank and file. Thousands died in these targeted, systematic killings. The outcome of the killings was the establishment of Suharto’s Orde Baru or New Order dictatorship. “1965” became the founding myth of Suharto’s regime. The memory of it was simultaneously repressed and instrumentalized, formed and denied: “don’t talk about the killings”, “the killings were a period of mass hysteria”, “society ran amok”, “the killings were caused by fighting among the Communists”, “don’t support communism, remember how they killed those people in 1965” – and, in hushed voices; “don’t support communism, remember how we crushed the PKI”.

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The concrete manifestation of the politics of the poor is the broadening and unifying of the peoples resistance, a unifying of the peoples mobilizations raising up demands and solutions to the socio-economic problems of the people. These mobilizations must grow and enter into every political arena of the poor, and the elections are just one of these.

No matter how difficult, the building of the peoples own strength to resist must be carried out, the problems must be overcome; this task cannot be avoided. Because this is the only way to make a Revolution, a Revolution that will open the way to Socialism in Indonesia.

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The honor and respect afforded to star West Papuan athletes playing in Indonesian colours at this year's SEA Games stands in stark contrast to the economic marginalization, discrimination and poverty Papuans face in their own land – home to the giant Freeport gold and copper mine – which saw profits double to $1.4 billion in the 2nd quarter of 2011 alone but contributes a measly 1% of its revenue to local communities whose environment and livelihoods are being decimated by the mine's operations. Kompas - November 16, 2011